Comments on: Trickle-Down Lives at the New York Times

By: jsardo

jsardo — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:17:21 +0000

Huge amounts of tax cut money were invested in foreign countries where it is indeed trickling down at subsistence wages. Sounds like a plan the rich have for America.

By: Gitcheegumee

Gitcheegumee — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:54:43 +0000

Next time I’ll be sure to screen any links.

I am certainly not anti immigrant-thankx for the info!

I AM familiar with the Online Journal link,because this is where i first came across the quote.

By: Mauimom

Mauimom — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:10:45 +0000

Are comments permitted on this NYT piece of crap?

‘Cause if so, . . .

By: roxsteady

roxsteady — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:10:27 +0000

The NY Times seems to be hiring a lot of idiots lately. The greedy ass rich got just what they deserved. Unfortunately we were the ones who had to bail them out. The good thing that came out of all of this was the outing of these frauds. They don’t and didn’t create anything. There were no Bill Gates’ in the financial industry. No innovators or entrepreneurs creating actual products that could be marketed and sold. Instead, we were witness to the real slacker generation whose only talent was the exploitation of our own lack of knowledge of just what the hell they were really up to. Their Wharton School diploma seems to have spawned the collapse of our economy. Their parents must be soooo proud! They’d be the only ones though.

By: earlofhuntingdon

earlofhuntingdon — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:54:45 +0000

Mr. Sullivan is an apologist, writing for himself and his neighbors. What kind of jobs do he and his patrons create? A few highly-paid “brain” jobs and a host of ill-paid, no-career-path other jobs.

The rich once claimed superiority because they cared for and fed clans and villages - in exchange for the bulk of their labors, including demanding that they lay down their lives to protect him. At some point, paid wages came in lieu of service or grain or hogs. It has been much the same whether the lord and protector wore a toga or chain mail, Errol Flynn tights or Regency wigs, Victorian top hats or Alfred P. Sloan’s homburgs. Labor was expected to tip its forelock (they had no hats), but woe unto thee who wagged a finger and asked, “Please sir, may have more?”

Trickle down economics has long been shown to be a sham. So, it seems, is Mr. Sullivan and his paper.

By: Mymy

Mymy — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:19:27 +0000

The NYT has become, or perhaps always was, the organ of Wall Street with a pseudo-liberal face. It is almost impossible to credit what they print, even in the ‘business’ section with reporters still wet behind the ears like Andrew Ross Sorkin, who did not even know that unions still exist in large companies these days. Reaganist propaganda has so permeated education, and especially it seems business schools have bought the idea that capitalism has triumphed over all other possible forms of economy — and by extension rule. [But remember when we used to laugh at people who went to business schools, and thought business edcuation should not even be part of a real university?]

By: ThingsComeUndone

ThingsComeUndone — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:17:42 +0000

www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty386.htm -

The link seems to be an anti immigrant site

By: Gitcheegumee

Gitcheegumee — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:00:58 +0000

The planned collapse of AmericaDec 7, 2007 … We are seeing the planned collapse of America, coming down the road we are on. What are we going to do to get our nation off that highway to …
www.onlinejournal.com/artman/p.....2715.shtml - Cached - Similar

Frosty Wooldridge — Planned Collapse of AmericaAug 4, 2008 … In his noble piece, The Planned Collapse of America, Peter Chamberlin wrote, “The government has known for decades that America is on a …
www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty386.htm - Cached - Similar

By: Gitcheegumee

Gitcheegumee — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:59:34 +0000

Well,here’s a little billet-doux to the Grey Lady from one of the “tricklers”,a Rockefeller,no less,from his own memoirs:

Here David Rockefeller admits media collusion… :

“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the light of publicity during those years. But now the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supra-national sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.”

Rockefeller writes on page 405 of his memoirs: “Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that is the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.” (Activists Go Face to Face With Evil As Rockefeller Confronted)

Online Journal,Peter Chamberlain, December,07,”The Planned Collapse of America”.(Linky to follow)

By: masaccio

masaccio — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:57:01 +0000

zarf, you are right, Sullivan doesn’t use the term trickle-down, but if you look at the first quote in the post, you will see that what he is describing is the trickle-down theory. My point is that the idea is so thoroughly ingrained as a foundation for understanding the economy that people usually read right over it.